Convert TIFF to PNG
A lossless copy of a TIFF that browsers, phones and office programs can open.
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TIFF and PNG are both lossless, and that is why this conversion is worth making. Nothing has to be given up: the pixels in the PNG are the pixels of the TIFF. What changes is who can open the file. A TIFF needs an image program. A PNG is shown by every browser, phone, chat app and office suite, and can be uploaded almost anywhere.
The page starts at a setting that keeps the PNG lossless. Transparency in the TIFF is carried over. Files prepared for print in CMYK are converted to the sRGB colours screens use, with the profile stored in the file, so they do not come out dull or inverted. Layers saved by an editor are flattened to the picture you see.
Up to twenty files convert at once without an account. Each TIFF is uploaded over an encrypted connection and converted on our own servers, and nothing is kept there beyond one hour.
Line art and scans of text are where PNG shines
Drawings, plans, maps, diagrams, sheet music and scanned pages of text have large areas of one tone and sharp boundaries between them. PNG stores that kind of picture exactly and very compactly, and its lines stay razor sharp at any zoom. A JPEG of the same page would be no smaller and would surround every line with faint smudging.
So for anything that is not a photograph, PNG is the natural way out of TIFF. A black-and-white scan of an A4 page, several megabytes as an uncompressed TIFF, is often well under 200 KB as a PNG.
Photographs: lossless has a price
A photographic TIFF is another matter. PNG will keep every grain of it, and the file reflects that: a twelve-megapixel photo is 15 to 25 MB as a PNG, not much less than the TIFF it came from. That is the right result when the picture is going to be edited further or archived in a format more programs read.
If the photo only needs to be viewed, sent or put on a website, a lossless file is the wrong tool. Choose JPG or WebP in the Format menu and the same picture drops to a tenth of the size with no difference you can see at normal viewing. The TIFF remains your master either way.
Multi-page TIFF files
TIFF can hold many pages in one file, which is how fax software and document scanners use it. PNG holds one picture. From a multi-page TIFF this page converts the first page only. If you need the others, split the file first in the scanning program or a document tool, and then convert the single pages together as a batch here. Scans that arrive as PDF are handled differently: the PDF pages on this site let you pick any page by number.
Frequently asked questions
Is anything lost when converting TIFF to PNG?
Not in the picture at the page's settings. Pixels are stored exactly. Extra pages, layers and print-specific colour information are not carried into the PNG.
Will the PNG be smaller than the TIFF?
Compared with an uncompressed TIFF, usually by half or more, and far more for line art. Against a TIFF that is already compressed the two are often close.
Is transparency kept?
Yes. An alpha channel in the TIFF becomes the transparency of the PNG.
Can I open the PNG in a browser?
Yes, in every browser. That is the main practical difference from TIFF, which browsers do not display.
What is the largest TIFF I can convert?
20 MB without an account and 200 MB with Pro, and up to 50 megapixels. A4 scanned at 600 dpi fits; A3 at 600 dpi does not.
Does it read CMYK TIFF files?
Yes. They are converted to sRGB so they look right on screens. For printing, keep the original.